by Brian | Aug 12, 2010 | Uncategorized
Seeing that the Department of Education is hosting a cyber-bullying summit this week caused me to wonder aloud something that I and others have wondered before: How much of the cyber-bullying and other online safety issues would be helped if schools were encouraged,...
by Brian | Jul 27, 2010 | Uncategorized
So the RttT 2nd round “winners” were announced today and what bothered me about it the most I think, is that it shows that a very narrow-minded policy is going forward and the negative side of me sees only bad things for education. Not only because I...
by Brian | Jul 26, 2010 | Uncategorized
I have long questioned why a policy like Race To The Top that is supposed to be about promoting innovation in education, has had such a narrow focus on charter schools, relying on standardized test scores to evaluate teachers, as well as assuming that teachers are...
by Brian | Jul 15, 2010 | Uncategorized
You’ll have to pardon me here. I originally meant to embed this video in my last post, but at the time I was at the airport and couldn’t make it work, so here is my TEDxDenver ED presentation embeded … unless of course it doesn’t work …...
by Brian | Jul 9, 2010 | Uncategorized
UPDATE 2 (7/15/2010)- OK, the video is back up sans my intro because my mic had an issue at first and the sound wasn’t great, so they edited that part out… not a big loss. I showed a slide of a classroom from 100 years ago and mentioned how Rttt (without naming...
by Brian | Jul 1, 2010 | Uncategorized
As each presenter shared onstage Janine Underhill made a “Graphic Representation” of what they were saying, doing and showing on an ENO interactive whiteboard. I was jumping around pretty quickly so I am amazed by just how she kept up with me. Thanks...
